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5714 Poet Quotes

And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head, This body of flame and steel, before the gust.

Die Beloved Dust Beauty
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Along my body, waking while I sleep, Sharp to the kiss, cold to the hand as snow, The scar of this encounter like a sword

Body Sleep Kiss Snow
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Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots, Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup,
Under Ground Brains Eaten
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Certain Characters Cutting Feet
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And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Truth Fear Death Friend
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Life is the game that must be played.

Life Game Played
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Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Gratitude Feel Larger Give
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I shall have more to say when I am dead.
Have Say Dead
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For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

Woman Alone Think Man
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Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
Shake Tree Life Frults
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To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

Come Time Change Beauty
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I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere

Star Shrouded Heavens
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Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Love Wings Fly Back again
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Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

Love Poor Life Ship
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I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

Living Hope Mind Received
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If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

Real Part Know Like
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The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him.

Deep String Touched Moment
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Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

Light Beneath Time Shape
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My life began with you, and my future goes on with you-there’s nothing else.

Else Nothing Future Life
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Heaven or hell is in one’s mind, not in the material things one has in the world.

World One Things Material
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Life is like the footprint left by a solitary crane in the snow, visible for one moment, and then gone.

Gone Moment One Visible
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History is like a mirror, capable of showing what a man really is.
Mirror Capable Man Really
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A desperately sick man will seek help from any doctor.

Doctor Help Sick Man
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After all, a man is only what he has decided to do, or not to do.

Man Decided Only After
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach

Love Count Depth Height
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Something Dream Miracle
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Love Count Ways
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Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
Earth's crammed Heaven Shoes
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Man Called Friendless God
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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

Love You What When
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.

Common Bush God Fire
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You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.

Made perfectly Loved Idea Life
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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.

Love me Sweet Feeling Thinking
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My sun sets to rise again.
My sun set Rise again
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The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

Cares Fretted me Fields Sea
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God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.

God's gift Men Best dream Shame
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Light tomorrow with today.

Light Tomorrow Today
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With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Nature Sound Music
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Love Breadth Soul
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All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

Heroes Essential Men Possible heroes
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And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

God Choose Love Death
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What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

Life Soul Happiness Wisdom
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What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Dream Wine Taste Grapes
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

My patience Dreadful Monument
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I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

Vision Tears Sad years
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Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

Grieved Love Heart wide
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

Love Vindicating grace Live
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Measure Work Labor
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!

Light Tears come Failing Hot
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Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day

Answer Last night Colors Candle light
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